Notes on Dialectics, probably the key work in the development of C.L.R..

James’s thinking, was written in 1948, and though its influence has been

deeply felt through privately circulated mimeographed editions, this is its

first publication in book form, with a new introduction by the author.

James aims at making Hegel’s Logic – a thorough study of which

Lenin saw as essential for understanding Marx’s Capital – ‘a part of our

marxist thinking today’. Close textual and explanatory reference to the

Science of Logic itself, and to Marx’s and Lenin’s use of ‘dialectic’,

provide a conceptual framework for examining the history of the

workers’ movement and the Internationals; and James concludes that

Trotsky’s marxism, that of the Fourth International, was inadequate for

the post-war world.

This book’s central and prophetic concerns – the revolutionary

nature of the proletariat, the state and the party – are just as important

in the present world crisis as they were when it was first written.

About this edition:

This epub edition was constructed based on the 1980 American paperback edition.

As sources I used:

https://archive.org/details/c-l-r-james-notes-on-dialectics-hegel-marx-lenin

https://files.libcom.org/files/CLR%20James%20-%20Notes%20on%20Dialectics.pdf

https://www.marxists.org/archive/james-clr/works/dialecti/index.htm

After OCR, I manually proofread and corrected for OCR errors.

I limited further edits to spelling errors that would hinder assistive technology use, then typographic markup and links for notes.

I expanded "ibid" entries in end notes to improve inline readability.

The cover is a simplified homage to the 1980 cover.

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